Maloney, Betty Florence (1925 - 2001)

An illustrator of many books on Australian plants, Maloney and her sister, Jean Walker, studied art at Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT).
After teaching art at the National Fitness Council, Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and St Catherine's School in Melbourne, she travelled to Europe.
With her sister she wrote Designing Australian Bush Garens and Australian Bush Gardens in 1966 and 1967.
The 86 watercolour illustrations used for the publication Proteaceae of the Sydney Region with Alec Blombery are in the Archives of the NSW State Library.
Also she illustrated books on mah-jong and thimbles - she maintained a collection of Victorian thimbles, was a co-founder, with her husband, of the Sydney Wagner Society and was involved with volunteer conservation groups, including the Society for Growing Australian Plants.
In the early 1990s her own garden at French's Forest, was approved by the National Trust as a Trust garden and she was presented with a terracotta plaque.

(Source: Latreille, Anne. http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/maloney-betty.html accessed 27/02/2002

Books

• Blombery, Alec and Maloney, Betty, Proteaceae of the Sydney region, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1981, 221 pp. [ Details... ]
• Blombery, Alec and Maloney, Betty, Growing native plants for balconies, courtyards & townhouses, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, NSW, 2000, 88 pp. [ Details... ]
• Blombery, Alec and Maloney, Betty (illustrations by), Growing Australian orchids, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville [NSW], 1998, 72 pp. [ Details... ]
• Blombery, Alec M and Maloney, Betty, Guide to Kosciusko, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst NSW, 1992, 64 pp. [ Details... ]
• Blombery, Alec M and Maloney, Betty, Propagating Australian plants, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst NSW, 1994, 120 pp. [ Details... ]
• Gowan, Susan Jean and Maloney, Betty (illustrations by), Thimbles of Australia : including thimbles of the world with an Australian connection, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville NSW, 135 pp. [ Details... ]
• Maloney, B. Walker, J. and Mullins B (edited by), More about bush gardens, Horwitz, Sydney, 1967, 127 pp. [ Details... ]
• Maloney, Betty and Blombery, Alec, Kakadu to Broome, Angus & Robertson, Pymble NSW, 1995, 160 pp. [ Details... ]
• Maloney, Betty and Walker, Jean, Designing Australian bush gardens, Mulavon, Sydney, c1966, 127 pp. [ Details... ]
• Moody, Mary; Broadribb, Kevin (protographs by) and Maloney, Betty (illustrations by), Wildflowers and native plants of Australia, Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1981, 120 pp. [ Details... ]
• Mullins, Barbara and Maloney, Betty (illustrated by), Native plants, Hodder and Stoughton, Sydney, 1985, 48 pp. [ Details... ]
• Mullins, Barbara; Maloney, Betty (illustrated by) and Baglin, Douglass (photographs by), Islands, Hodder and Stoughton, Sydney, 1985, 48 pp. [ Details... ]
• Thompson, Patricia A and Maloney Betty, The game of mah jong illustrated, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst [NSW], 1990, 64 pp. [ Details... ]
• Thompson, Patricia A and Maloney, Betty, Improve your mah jong: more about the game of mah jong, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst NSW, 1991, 63 pp. [ Details... ]
• Thompson, Patricia A and Maloney, Betty, The Mah jong player's companion, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, 1997, 64 pp. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• Correy, Allan, 'Valete', Australian Garden History, vol. 13, no. 3, 2001, p. 21. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

• Latreille, Anne, 'Betty Florence Maloney', The Age, Life & Times, 06/10/01, p. 8. [ Details... ]

Online Resources

• Blombery, A M, 'Maloney, Betty (1925 - 2001)', 2001, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/maloney-betty.html. [ Details... ]